Stability-enhancing control of a coupled transport–diffusion system with Dirichlet actuation and Dirichlet measurement

Abstract

We investigate the problem of enhancing the stability of a coupled transport–diffusion system with Dirichlet actuation and Dirichlet measurement. In the recent paper [H. Sano, Neumann boundary control of a coupled transport–diffusion system with boundary observation, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 377 (2011) 807–816], we treated the stabilization problem for the case with Neumann actuation and Dirichlet measurement, where the variable transformation of the state is performed by using the fractional power of an unbounded operator. However, we cannot use the similar transformation for the case with Dirichlet actuation and Dirichlet measurement, since it brings an ill-posed expression of the system. So, we use an algebraic approach for the formulation of the system. In this paper, it is shown that a reduced-order model with a finite-dimensional state variable is controllable and observable. The fact enables us to construct a finite-dimensional stability-enhancing controller for the original infinite-dimensional system by using a residual mode filter (RMF) approach. The novelty of this paper is the structure that the controller contains the dynamics with respect to the control variable. As a result, the state vector of the resulting closed-loop system includes the control variable as its entry.